TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Damien
TI  - Agent Josephine: American beauty, French hero, British spy 
SN  - 9781541700666
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - PublicAffairs
KW  - Baker, Josephine,
KW  - Women spies
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - African American women dancers
KW  - France
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Women
KW  - Underground movements
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain in 2022 by Quercus Editions Ltd; Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-452) and index; A traitor unmasked -- An honourable spy -- From Paris with love -- A most sensational woman -- The darkness descends -- It can't always be caviar -- The enemy at the gates -- The iron resistance -- Stardom, her cloak and her dagger -- The black angel -- Invisible ink and secret steamships -- On the Gestapo hitlist -- Abandon all hope -- Unbreakable -- The twelve apostles -- Dances with death -- Operation Josephine B -- Operation Underworld -- Captured, imprisoned -- The grim reaper calls -- Lighting the torch -- Die another day -- Into the heat and dust -- Liberation day -- A song for Buchenwald -- Epilogue
N2  - "In Agent Josephine, bestselling author Damien Lewis uncovers this little-known history of the famous singer's life. During the war years, as a member of the French Nurse paratroopers--a cover for her spying work--Baker participated in numerous clandestine activities and emerged as a formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served--the US, France, and Britain"--
ER  -